The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-04-21
He PROPHESIES.

| clouS JOY. ne skies are fOSeate with
eternal sunshine, the atmosphere, be-
reit OF moisture by mountains ON every
hand, is so chrystaline that distance
-alls 10y half, as elsewhere, to lessen
objects of vision. The sun rises in
cIoudless, gorgeous splendor and sets
in sea of golden glory. No shadow
OF cloud wells its glowing disc. The
moon is waited by night over an in.
yerted starry ocean, and glGws with
brilliancy elsewhere unknown. The
stars are blazing electric lights to
illuminate Gods dwelling place and
pathway.
"ln Il coming age, when peace and
unity are restored, men and women
will dwell here whose tastes and intel
igence will be shaped by grand physi
cal facts and aspects of nature about
them, and the proudest race on Gods
footStool will dwell in Sequatchie
Valley.
"Parden my enthusiasm! | love
East Tennessee, the land of my birth
CoNTRAsTED WITH THE NORTH
Occasional days, even in February.
pressage the coming of spring. De-
lights Of sunny laGtudes are discover
ed in Favonlon mildness OF summer
skies Velse and book-makers tell Of
smiling might and fertilizing show
ers when spring-time comes in hyper
boreau regions. The Imagination o!
weary, restless wealth and fashion il
excited and never learns the truth that
the fiery ferceness of the summers
un and hOt-air baths Of cloudy after
moons are inhnitly more intolerable al
Cape May and Saratoga than cooling
winds that climb the mountains and
descend into the valleys and come toy.
ing with roses and dancing about cot
tages Of dwelers in East Tennessee.
Each inhahilant, sooner or later, falls
into the spell Of enchantment and. is
1cady to eXclaim," ,"The lairest land be-
meath the sun!' Spring expands in
to summer and summer is the rest OF
the year. East Tennessee is poetically
eloquent of the charms of delightful
valleys, the sweep Of yerdure clad
plains, the witchery beautiful river,
= s.ul i,..rs,-ei--s uI~l~s5s oad environ'
ing mountains The face of the coun'
try is facinating, strong, rugged, full
Of character and never to be forgotten
"Glad and gracious days through an
entire twelve months are here illum
ined with sweetest sunlight, and shed
upon us cantinous luster. Not else
where do flowers blossom more bright
ly, or fruits ripen more generously O.
waters murmur more sweetly, or bird
y sing more charmingly through all th'
" months Of the delightful year"
A GORGEOUS PICTURE.
= "To rise when the mountains envil
= oning East Tennessee are flushed witt
sp'endors of early dawn, to travers
n smiling valleys and deep green fields
t while scarlet flowers clasp the glldin
g feet to watch purple wraiths of raj
; haunting the fairness Of the part
+. oolored mountains, to see the shadow
n chase the suns rays on the dusk
;. sides of the Blue Ridge on Smoky {
t. Cumberland ridge, feel the livin
d light of the cloudless day beat with
Is million pulses, to go out in the lustC
# IF the night aflame with astral splel
ID dor, until the dark, still plains an
Il deep and darker valleys blaze like
Of ph0sphoresCent sea, to breathe tn
n wondrous air, soft as the first impas
" ioned kisses of young love, and ric
ct rs wine with the delicious oders of
n. world OF fowers-theSe, as was write
tn of Italy, has been our joys-the 10,
I'd at once of the senses and of the sol
u, East Tennessee is dreamland of Il
rs continent. Cool, fierce, wintry bias
le. that came not long ago from icy ca
u erns beneath hyperborean SHOWS al
" made us shiver on the mountain
n. brow, only serve to excite stronger {
lection for the house we have in de,
g valleys, beneath cloudless skies, ia
ned by delicious breezes coming war
with the life blood Of the equator, al
ilo tripping away with laps full of ros
mo from rich green fields ALMOST tropiC
wa in exuberance."
y x
ba Astonishment and delight begot p
found silence. 1t was just such
~. ou-burst as would appeal successful
.bo to the spirit Of a bibulous thro
ot. which was slowly released from t
isl spell Of euchantment woven by I
ot gratefully impressive declaimer. G,
of Forrest was Erst to recover from I
1n, effect of Haynes splendid dicton a
N majestic manner
ast Let us drink standing" he cri
the TO the gods OF East Tennessee-poe
liz and eloquence. The embodiment
n, both is before Us"
nh. The building shook with the Il